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Alice-Miranda in Hollywood (#16) – Jacqueline Harvey
Penguin Random House August 2017-09-03 ISBN 9780143780618 RRP $16.99 My girls are already super-excited awaiting this latest Alice-Miranda and well they should be because I think it is the most exciting thus far! A-M and her pals are in the midst of being part of a real Hollywood movie – as child actors in A-M’s…
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Raymond – Yann & Gwendal Le Bec
Walker Books ISBN: 9781406362428 May 1, 2017 Australian RRP: $24.99 New Zealand RRP: $27.99 What an utterly charming debut to Walker Books from brothers Yann and Gwendal Le Bec! The plethora dog lovers both young and old who have often wondered what their dog might be like as a ‘human’ will enjoy the gentle humour, others will ruminate…
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Nanna’s Button Tin – Dianne Wolfer & Heather Potter
Walker Books ISBN: 9781922077677 June 1, 2017 Australian RRP: $24.99 New Zealand RRP: $27.99 This is an absolutely charming story for young readers and a beautiful gentle lead in to the idea of memories, keepsakes and family story telling. When a special little girl needs a very specific button to repair a much loved teddy, Nanna’s button tin…
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Ava’s Big Move – Surf Riders Club #1 – Mary Van Reyk
Hachette Children’s Books Imprint: Lothian Children’s Books September 2017 9780734417909 RRP $12.99 First in a new series designed to encourage more girls into the sport of surfing this kicks off in a very promising manner. Ava’s parents have decided on a sea change which means that Ava is leaving behind her big city life,…
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Crazy About Cats – Owen Davey
Walker Books Australia Imprint: Flying Eye Books September 2017 ISBN: 9781911171164 RRP $27.99 This is the third in this stunning series – which as I’ve mentioned before completely and utterly captures my inner nerdy child. Davey explores the world of cats from big to small, weird to wonderful and sweet to savage with his own…
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The Build-Up Season – Megan Jacobson
Penguin Random House 9780143573388 July 31, 2017 Penguin (AU YR) RRP $19.99 What a fantastic and gripping read this is! This one had to be read over two nights but it was a wrench to leave it halfway! Ily (Iliad) Piper is a young woman who has had to face many emotional upheavals in…
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The Snow Angel – Lauren St John
Harper Collins Zephyr Books/Head of Zeus ISBN 9781786695895 October 2017 RRP $19.99 It’s a long way from the wide blue skies and shimmering heat haze of Kenya to the bleak snow covered moors of Inverness and for 12 year old Makena the journey is not just a geographical one. Much loved only child of…
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Ruby Redfort: Pick Your Poison [#5] – Lauren Child
Harper Collins May 2017 ISBN10 0007334273 RRP $14.99 So about a week or so before I finished my last job (a month ago now) one of my favourite girls, Miss Georgia from Year 6, followed me into the library one morning, her face aglow. “Oh Ms Warren – I just finished reading the BEST book!” Yes,…
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Goodly and Grave in a Bad Case of Kidnap – Justine Windsor
Harper Collins ISBN: 9780008183530 Imprint: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks May 2017 Lucy Goodly has been won in a game of cards against the strange Lord Grave, despite the fact that she has a magical card to help her win. Her parents are inveterate gamblers – unsuccessful ones at that – and this time they have lost their only child who…
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Nursery Rhymes
In the times when I was in the classroom I was for the most part an ‘Infants’ teacher as we were known then. I mostly taught Year 1 or 1/2. We knew the importance of nursery rhymes and they were always our entree into the world of language. From my observations it seems that less…
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